There’s always something tasty in the world of college football.
- Paul Myerberg notes that there may be one weekend that proves to be the exception to the adage that you don’t plan a wedding in the South on a fall weekend: “… Nov. 17, when the [SEC] will feature more than twice as many games against F.C.S. competition, seven, as it does actual conference games, three.”
- For those who thought Tommy Tuberville would be a step up from Mike Leach in the recruiting department, it turns out that Texas Tech brought in seven JUCO early enrollees with its most recent class.
- Something to keep an eye on, playoff fans: pay options begin to creep back into viewing March Madness.
- And Texas asks for patience with the Longhorn Network.
- Sally Jenkins’ Captain Queeg analogy for Randy Edsall is pretty awesome. (Although I wish she could have worked the strawberries in there, somehow.)
- Will Dorial Green-Beckham be a bigger challenge for Georgia now?
- This comes as absolutely no surprise to me: “When he secured a coveted spot on an all-star game roster reportedly assembled by “the (2006) U.S. Army All-American Bowl Selection Team made up of Tom Lemming of CSTV and representatives of Scout.com“, Adam James had no Division I scholarship offers and 14 receptions in 10 games as a tight end playing in the state’s second-lowest (2A) Texas high school football classification.”
Get The Picture 
I’m going to go out on a limb and say Mitchell will be covering Beckham by the time the game rolls around.
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Dorial Green-Beckham? I’ll take the Calvin Johnson flahbacks. He wore the bagel. Can we get the Reggie Ball flashbacks to go with them?
We managed to lose 7 last year with AJ.
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More than just the winning record over GT, that isn’t so surprising with a team game like football, but I recall we just shut him down somehow. Can’t remember how Willie did it, but we just neutered him except for a play, or two. This Beckham kids looks to have all the tools a young Johnson had coming out of HS, very physical build. He will be a challenge year one, imo. Not saying we cannot deal with it, but there will be very little tape on how they plan to use him before we tee it up.
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If I recall correctly Paul Oliver shut CJ down, with the assistance of Reggie Ball.
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It was Paul O, he was a beast on CJ. I hated to see him leave early. What happened with him in the league?
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Plays for the San Diego Chargers.
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And in ’05 it was Demario Minter putting the clamps on him, to the tune of 2 receptions.
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Not having someone at QB who could get the ball to Johnson was the reason why Johnson was “shut down” by CWM’s D when UGA was playing Tech in those days. Mizzou has a QB who CAN get the ball to Green -Beckham. I’m telling you guys, this Mizzou game at Columbia in the first ever SEC contest for Mizzou and UGA’s first SEC game of the year is dangerous, particularly since we have South Carolina coming up. Reminds me of the UGA-Okie State matchup in ’09 only worse since it is a conference game. Classic trap game situation.
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How is it a trap game? Georgia doesn’t play S. Car. until four games later.
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Ooops!!! They moved the damn USCe game….Never mind about the “trap game.” Let’s just not get beat by Mizzou whatever you want to call it.
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The Mayor of Dawgtown is sent to the board
http://www.addletters.com/pictures/bart-simpson-generator/bart-simpson-generator.php?line=I+will+remind+myself+that+Missouri+is+the+trap+game+for+Florida+Atlantic%21
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Yawzuh.
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Reggie managed to get the ball to CJ 76 times for 1200 yards and 15 TD in 2006. During the UGA game that year CJ had 2 rec for 13 yards.
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I remember the camera on CJ whenever Ball went back to pass and he was covered like flypaper until Reggie threw the ball, at which time he got the separation needed only to slow down for the underthrown ball. It was just something about the Dawg coverage and rush that affected ole Reggie’s mind. Including 4th downs.
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Thank you. Everyone knows Reggie was less than stellar, but let’s give the props to our D those games. Reggie found a way to get Johnson big numbers against other defenses. Guarantee if BVG had been the DC everyone would be saying it was he who shut CJ down.
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Strawberries?
Wasn’t it peaches?
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Upon further review…… strawberries.
The article on James is pure gold.
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I love Craig James. He makes me feel so much better about myself.
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“On board my ship, excellent performance is standard. Standard performance is sub-standard. And sub-standard does not exist.” best line i’ve heard in awhile, and its from a WashPo columnist.
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….but I think she was quoting a line from Captain Queeg in that classic 50s movie
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Craig James v Beck Campbell Helicopter Parent Cage Match
At least Ms Campbell managed to get Arkansas a better coach.
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Randy needs more ball bearings. In next week’s episode, Sally will have him playing the role of Captain Schettino
http://66.235.120.67/e?t=8887521547870340945
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Shettino, that’s a small shett in Italian, isn’t it?
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Sally Jenkens’s title for the martinet, Edsall, is spot on as “Chief Petty Officer”. That is a good’un.
Terrible to hear that the LHN has a failure to launch. Could it be that the “favorite son” status of Jessie’s favorite son could have anything to do with it? Brooks’s story on Adam James and the wheelbarrows needed to haul the ton of shit called “interest from other schools” is like the political interest it has inspired for his fist-bumping low-IQ father.
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I rank the MIssou game right up there with the USCe game as the biggest stumbling blocks for the Dawgs. However, playing in the SEC, , On any given saturday, ETC. Go dawgs.
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Right on. Old farts know.
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+1 There are 3-4 SEC games we could find a way to lose, but Mizzou and SC are the two most worrisome to me.
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A question: why was The Pirate taken in? OK, the boy couldn’t play dead in a Western, and yet Tech took him. Smart people make big mistakes, too. And sometimes, when they think they are being smartest, much bigger mistakes than dumb people could ever imagine.
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